Archive for June, 2017

Senator Kamala Harris and Children

Kamala Harris is Driving Racist Sexist Republicans Crazy!

Reading a lot of the disparaging comments attacking Senator Kamala Harris on the thread below this video on You Tube linked below, it is easy to understand an otherwise inexplicable conundrum: How did a dumb, vulgar, compulsive liar and megalomaniacal con man like Donald Trump get elected President? It is because of an epidemic of ignorance such as is exhibited by the writers on this thread! Those pugnaceous airheads handicapped by racism and sexism who despite having barely made it through grade school feel free to challenge their intellectual superiors if they happen to be black or female. Hopefully, by virtue of the fact that the internet is a world-wide forum, people from all over the world, who are scratching their heads in wonder, can perchance gain an understanding of how the world’s most powerful nation could elect a politically ignorant, amoral, bunko artist as our President.

During the Republican primary elections, all of Trump’s adversaries called him “a con man without a moral center.” And they were right! The thinkers in the Republican party like Bill Krystol, George Will, David Frum, et al are embarrassed by Trump and despise him. And, although they have decided to capitalize on his unexpected victory, the Republican establishment – the conservative plutocrats – are contemptuous of him and consider him “white trash with money;” which also explains why white trash without money, such as many writers on the You Tube thread, love him so! It also explains why he returned their love in an impassioned public declaration: “I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED!!!!”

As for Kamala Harris, well she is a brilliant lawyer and court room prosecutor, a former Attorney General of California. She has progressive California values and is doing just what Californians elected her to do: protect and defend those values. She did a splendid job of protectiong the interests of Californians when she joined with Bo Biden and Eric Schneiderman – the Attorney Generals of Delaware and New York – in prosecuting the big banks whos malpractice brought on thee economic crash of the Bush years. And her mad skills as an interrogator are prominently on display.

Although she has been reprimanded by arrogant white Republican males on the Intelligence Committee for being too aggresive – which they find unbearable in a woman – Senator Harris is easily the brightest bulb in the box among that confederation of muddled headed self-important mediocre white Republican boys!!! She is driving their silly asses into hissy fits – racist sexist backward churls that they are!!!

Senator Harris could well become the first female President. She is infinitely more qualified and ethically developed than the corrupt con man and soon the be proven crook that daily debases the political discourse of our nation and befouls the White House. The election of Donald Trump is irrefutable evidence that American democracy is dysfunctional; a revelation of Thomas Jefferson’s prophecy at the founding of this Republic: A popular democracy cannot work an ignorant electorate, because they will elect and return the worst people to power.

The legions of poor and working-class whites that form the majority and most enthusiastic of Trump supporters are the least educated sector of American society; The kind of people Jefferson warned against. Hence Trump’s election represents the triumph of the untutored mob!

Let me be clear in my purpose: I am not writing this to try and sway Trump Supporters; that’s a fool’s errand. I am writing this to answer the questions of those who are honestly puzzled and alarmed by the election of an “insane clown” – who has been diagnosed by thousands of psychiatrist and psychologist as suffering from “Malignant Narcissism and “paranoia” – to the Presidency of the USA. The fact that this diagnosis is the same diagnosis given for Adolph Hitler’s mental maladies by the German Psychiatrist Eric Fromm, a refugee from Nazi genocide, at the request of US intelligence – the Office of Strategic Services – should make us all scared as hell!!!!

Alas, since the Trumpanzee’s are innocent of real knowledge and therefore can’t tell fact from fiction, this explains the stupid headline that accompanies the video below. The fact that somebody would post this, knowing that we will watch it and see what is happening for ourselves, provides unimpeachable evidence that this is all beyond their comprehension.

Tragically, the Trump acolytes are too stupid to see that “The Donald” is contemptuous of their intelligence and regards them as “losers;” which he despises. Donnie loves the rich and famous and does not now, nor has he ever, hung out with slubs like “Joe Six Pack” and “Dumb Dora,” who are the most devoted sector of his base. To him such people are only fit to shine his shoes, clean his hotels and vote for him based on bogus arguments and hollow promises. “The Donald” is all bunko!

Playthell G. Benjamin

Harlem, New York

June 26, 2017

Trump in a pugnacious mood firing up the crowd

“Ye Shall Reap What You Sow”

During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump promised the “deplorable” gun nuts that supported him en mass that he would remove all controls on gun possession in America! Well, now that a group of Republican Congressmen got shot up on a baseball field this morning, Trump’s Birthday, perhaps the twittering twit and verbose airhead – who shoots from lip without a thought – will take notice of the fact that NOBODY is safe from gun violence in a nation awash in guns!!!

If I were a Christian I would argue that it is a revelation of biblical prophecy that it was Republican Congressmen who came under fire by a gunman wielding a military assault rifle by a disgruntled citizen outraged by the Grand Obstructionist Party’s pro-rich policies. We know what motivated him because we have now see pictures of the gunman – a 66 year old unemployed white male from Booreville Illinois – on television in a Pro-Bernie Sanders campaign carrying sign calling for increased taxation of the American plutocracy.

The Shooter!

JamesT Hodgekinson: On the Front Lines of the American Class War

It is a miracle that only one Congressman – Steve Scalese from gun crazy Louisiana – was hit among the six casualties, and none was killed. If the gunman had been a better shot, or attacked from closer range, this could easily have ended up like the Orlando Massacre! The weapon had a scope, and if the Capitol police had not responded so quickly the shooter could have picked them off like sitting ducks on a pond. Two of the people shot were capitol cops; who were badly outgunned going up against a military assault rifle with their little six shooters! One of the Congressmen had served as a battle surgeon who served in Iraq, and he says that the way the bullets were raining down on them he felt as if he was back in Iraq.

The grand irony in this is that only Republicans were on the field, because they were practicing for an upcoming bi-partisan soft ball game featuring the Republicans vs the Democrats, and it is the Republicans that refuse to allow any kind of gun control legislation to pass. These Republican gun nuts have been removed restrictions on people who are potential terrorists on the FBI no-fly list, and people who have been treated for mental illness. President Barack Obama pleaded with them to pass gun legislation, but they refused to even restore the ban on military assault weapons.

In view of these facts it is almost amusing to hear Republican Congressmen now whining about getting shot up; when they have been unmoved by the daily carnage perpetrated by gunman all across America that has resulted in the slaughter of thousands of innocents including children. Hence it is amusing to listen to these hypocritical Republican assholes talk agonizingly about how they never thought something like this could happen to them. Say What? It happens multiple times every day: It is the chance we all take just going about the daily business of living in America

The most odious aspect of the discussion now going on in the aftermath of the shooting – and there is an embarrassment of riches amongst the banal blather flooding the airwaves – is all the talk about how special protections should be provided to Congressmen! And coming from Republicans it is shameless duplicity. I don’t think we taxpayers should spend a dollar to protect special protection to them! They should be exposed to the same dangers that they expose the rest of us to with their amoral folly. For it is their shameless genuflection before the Gun Lobby and firearms manufactures that make billions selling these instruments of death!

They are deserving of our most loathsome contempt, as does the cowardly reports who now broadcast their self-righteous whining and crocodile tears without pointing out their responsibility for this tragic state of affairs, where all Americans are forced to live under the terror of gun wielding criminals and lunatics. Most appalling are their prayers, which in the absence of concrete action to remove all of these guns from the streets is blasphemy!

The empty wooden statement of Donald Trump on the shooting is beneath contempt in light of his cheerleading for the gun totin mob during the election, when he swore to block any attempt to control access to guns by Congress. And when you consider how his reckless rhetoric poisoned the political atmosphere by revving up the worse passions among the American people, heightening the probability of internecine violence, it is hard to escape the conclusion that Trump is a man with blood on his hands.

Yet, amoral bunko artist that he is, Dastardly Donnie put on his false face feigning sorrow and, speaking for the Diplomatic Room in the White House, he told the nation:

“We may have our differences but we do well in times like these in times like these that everyone who serves in our nation’s capital is here because above all they love our country. We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans that our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace and that we are strongest when we are unified.”

Trump’s speech was a paragon of pious perfunctory prattle; meaningless empty blather devoid of any mention of the need to control access to firearms and reduce the number of guns on the street. It was an embarrassment from a man who has vowed to use the power of his office to get even more guns in the hands of gun nuts! Alas, the pronouncements of Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the Republican controlled House of Representatives, from whence any gun control legislation must originate, was no better.

“We are united in our shock…. We are united in our anguish. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.My colleagues, there are many memories from this day we will want to forget, and many images we will not want to see again. But there is one image in particular that this House should keep. And that is a photo I saw of our Democratic colleagues gathered in prayer this morning after hearing the news.

You know, every day, we come here to test and challenge each other. We feel so deeply about the things we fight for and believe in. At times, our emotions can get the best of us. We are all imperfect. But we do not shed our humanity when we enter this chamber. For all the noise and fury, we are one family. These were our brothers and sisters in the line of fire. These were our brothers and sisters who ran into danger and saved countless lives.”

Only Terry McCauliff, the Democratic Governor of Virginia, used this occasion to speak out ahainst America’s insane gun laws! Alas, while the Republicans are quite adept at pious preachment, they are missing in action when it comes to passing legislation that could rescue the American people from this catastrophe of gun violence that presently engulfs this nation. Again, there was no mention of any legislation to address this plague, just more meaningless prattle.

Choosing to play upon the emotions of Americans instead of offering a plan of action, much is being made of the fact that one Republican Congressman had his young son with him this morning. Hence we are subjected to much expression of shock, accompanied by sentimental outrage about the ten year old “having to witness gun violence.” Well I say welcome to the realities of life for millions of Americans, whom his father continues to place in danger by supporting laws that make it easy for anybody to buy guns!

I think this the worse kind of emotional exploitation by people who are a huge and integral part of the problem. If Republican Congressmen want to feel safe from gun violence, then let them REPEAL THE SECOND ADMEDMENT!!!!! That is the ONLY SOLUTION to the gun plague that takes more lives on the streets of America than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!!!

Even as I write the news has reached my ears that six more people have been shot on the other side of this vast nation in San Francisco, four have died! Already I can hear the tepid cries of pusillanimous poot-butt pooty-pop politicians bloviating about how this is not the time to discuss gun control! That’s what these spineless charlatans always say, as they offer up phony prayers in contemptable blasphemous incantations. BUT I SAY NOW IS THE TIME!!!!! IF NOT NOW WHEN?